Research

My primary research focus is the interplay between syntax and pragmatics, primarily in relation to Swedish and the Scandinavian languages. I completed my Ph.D. on Negative Polarity Items at Lund University in 2010 under the supervision of Christer Platzack and Valéria Molnár. My current research is in part funded by the research project The Syntax of Swedish Negation (RJ P15-0709:1), the purpose of which is to chart and analyze the syntax of negation in the history of Swedish.

Publications

Articles and book chapters

Brandtler, Johan. [Accepted] The Question of Form in the Forming of Questions. The meaning and use of clefted wh-interrogatives in Swedish. Journal of Linguistics.